Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TOES20230915005
- Term of Validity
- 15 September 2023 - 14 September 2025
- Company's Country
- Spain
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Research and development cooperation agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
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A Spanish university offers a software tool that serves as an ally for supply chain professionals, empowering them to make informed decisions through comprehensive hybrid simulation. Its versatility in modelling both collaborative and non-collaborative supply chain behaviours, along with its adaptability to different noise levels, positions it as a pivotal asset in optimizing supply chain operations, mitigating risks, and, etc.
They seek a commercial or/and research cooperation agreement. - Full Description
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This researcher stands as a prominent authority in the realms of supply chain management and hybrid simulation. With this pioneering research, he has yielded a groundbreaking decision support tool that has earned recognition for its technical excellence.
Utilizing a hybrid modelling approach that seamlessly blends discrete-event and agent-based simulation techniques, this tool allows for in-depth analysis of how managerial decisions influence supply chain dynamics. It serves as an invaluable resource for understanding and improving the behaviour of supply chain managers.
This software activity opens the doors to a deeper understanding of supply chain management and the applications of simulation in decision-making, as well as potential collaborations and research opportunities in this field.
The university is interested in contact with different partners. Commercial agreements are sought and partners for research cooperation agreements are welcome as well. - Advantages and Innovations
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The Beer Game Extended simulator is a tool that enables experimentation with the well-known Beer Game production and distribution system.
In addition to the two classic sources of uncertainty considered in the Beer Game—consumer demand and distortion caused by fixed waiting times (production and shipments)—to offer greater realism and similarity to a real supply chain, the Beer Game Extended has been expanded with different sources of noise: defective product rate, production capacity constraints, transportation capacity constraints, production costs, shipping costs, and storage costs.
In this way, the Beer Game Extended provides an appropriate framework for analyzing managers' behaviour and the impact of their decisions on the supply chain's dynamics.
To implement this Beer Game Extended, hybrid modeling and simulation techniques have been employed.
On one hand, discrete-event simulation has been used to implement a list of future events, which is necessary to advance the simulation clock and manage the sequence of discrete events that unfold actions. On the other hand, agent-based simulation has been used, as this decentralized approach is considered very suitable for analyzing the complex behavior of supply chains.
Thus, the supply chain has been modeled as a multi-agent. system, where individual agents interact within an environment and cooperate to achieve collective objectives.
Main advantages:
• It allows the identification of current issues and potential improvements within a specific supply chain.
• Fosters a paradigm shift from a non-collaborative approach to a collaborative approach.
• Facilitates experimentation before implementing decision-making in real supply chains. - Stage of Development
- Available for demonstration
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- IPR status
- IPR applied but not yet granted
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The tool extends the Beer Game in a way that allows the configuration of different levels of uncertainty and the working philosophy of the supply chain (collaborative and non-collaborative). Through simulation, different alternatives can be experienced beyond those offered, facilitating decision-making.
In addition, they are looking for a research groups and research institutions to collaborate to transfer and bring the technology to the next level and, additionally, apply for European funds. - Type and Size of Partner
- SME 50 - 249
- SME <=10
- Other
- Big company
- SME 11-49
- R&D Institution
- University
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Research and development cooperation agreement
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 02003004 - Supply chain
- 002006009 - Simulation, Simulation Engineering
- 01003006 - Computer Software
- 02003002 - Manufacturing plants networks
- 01004003 - Applications for Transport and Logistics
- Market keywords
- 02007011 - Manufacturing/industrial software
- 02006004 - Data processing, analysis and input services
- Targeted countries
- All countries